15 Best Organizing Bookmarks Tools From 2016

Last Updated on March 29, 2016

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If you’re a blogger, journalist or simply desire more knowledge, you’ve most definitely faced information organization problems. Sometimes being able to access and find information quickly is crucial. Nowadays the web is enormous and it’s a big advantage to have a place where you can store all your bookmarks, pictures and links, access them anytime, anywhere and be able share them quickly.

If you’re as lazy as I am you’ve probably got something like a ‘Do it later’ folder in your bookmarks. And then you’re just showing links there until that list is the length of your screen.

Sometimes you’ve got a great idea and you write it down on a notepad for example. Most likely you’d forget about it and never open it again. I’m kind of a pedant and I like when everything is organized neatly and quickly available. It’s especially true with my web experience.

I remember those times when I had to dig through my browser’s history to find an image I wanted to show my friend. Then I started to wonder – is there a tool which would help with organizing bookmarks, pictures, write my notes and access it all immediately from multiple devices?

After some time and research I came across Zootool. Ever since then I’ve been a die-hard Zootool fan. I use Zootol mainly for collecting images, however when writing this article I found some other outstanding tools with which you can quickly save, and organize, your notes and thoughts.

So Which Is The Best Tool For Organizing Bookmarks in 2016?

Zootool is about collecting, organizing and sharing your favorite images, videos, documents and links from all over the internet. They are a small, bootstrapped startup, located in Mannheim, Germany. Driven by a passion for design, web, code and all kind of nerdery, they are working hard to built the most awesome tool for geeks like us.

Get the Lasso

Collect

Build your own little library of interesting things you find on the web. Use the Lasso in your bookmark bar to store new images, videos, documents and webpages in seconds.

Organize

With its intuitive interface your Zoo is simply the best place to keep your stuff organized. Beautiful thumbnails make it super easy to browse your entries and with our tag and pack system you can be sure that your Zoo stays tidy forever.

Share

Sharing web content has never been easier. Setup your Twitter, Friendfeed, Delicous or Tumblr account and share all the stuff in your Zoo with your friends out there.

Tools

Besides lasso Zootool also offers other types of tools like ultra-fast page saving and an even more comfortable way to share images on Twitter. There’s also a mobile version of the site and a WordPress plugin to include your recent Zootool entries in your blog’s sidebar.

Evernote’s goal is to give everyone the ability to easily capture any moment, idea, inspiration, or experience whenever they want using whichever device or platform they find most convenient, and then to make all of that information easy to find. From creating text and ink notes, to snapshots of whiteboards and wine labels, to clips of webpages, Evernote users can capture anything from their real and digital lives and find it all anytime.

Capture Everything

Chances are, if you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe.

Organize

Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks.

Web Clipper

A light simple tool to save web pages for reading later. We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them. Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.

Instapaper has it’s own iPhone app so you can read your unread articles while you’re on the train, bus or just standing in a row.

280daily is quite possibly the future of consistent journaling and the easiest way to create a searchable archive of your life. It’s like a private Twitter where you have to sum up your daily activities in 280 characters or less. You can use it to write a journal, makes business notes or simply keep track of what you’ve been doing. Some features:

Set up an email notifications so you wouldn’t forget to write an entry each day

280daily is also optimized for mobile devices so you can easily write your entries while driving in bus, for example

Thoughtboxes is a simple tool that helps to organize your thoughts so you can make things happen. Thoughtboxes has a very simple system to keep everything organized. You have a train of thought, which is a main topic, and then you have a bunch of boxes, which are your lists of thoughts within that topic.

Keep track of To-do’s

See everything you need to do, all on one screen. Check things off as you complete them, or delete them from the list all together.

Remember details

Sometimes you need to organize complicated things like going on a trip. Thoughtboxes gives you the flexibility to separate different thoughts and keep everything neat and tidy. You can minimize boxes that you aren’t currently working on to tidy up your page.

Brainstorm a new idea

Thoughtboxes is great for laying out all of your ideas in one place. You can also put links in your boxes for quick references. When you have many streams of thought, you can hide them on the top of the screen to clean up your page.

Shelfster is an app that helps bloggers and journalists to collect and organize notes. It aims to match journalism organizations with passionate contributors, creating collaborative environments for targeted content. With Shelfster you can:

Collect, upload and collaborate with journalism organizations

Build your profile and portfolio

Publish, promote and monetize your content

The Shelfster Desktop Tool is a research and writing tool that allows you to quickly gather your ideas and information from the web or from documents on your computer and write articles. All information can be organized using specific tags and is stored in your online account. Shelfster also has an iPhone application and bookmarklet.

Diigo is a cloud-based personal information management system. Diigo provides you a tools on all major web browsers, Android, iPad and iPhone to help you to access a variety of information. Diigo is research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.

BlinkList is a powerful productivity tool that makes is much easier for anyone to share and save their links for later. They give you a browser button to save web pages you like in one click.

Never lose a page again

With BlinkList you can save a local copy of any web page on your computer. That way, even if the web page disappears, you will always have a local copy that you can get back to later.

Discover web

Once you start saving more web pages, BlinkList will automatically start recommend you web pages that you are likely interested in but have not yet discovered on your own.

Find links instantly

BlinkList has a lightening fast search engine that will help you find the links that you are looking for in the fraction of a second. You can search through your links faster than you can search through Google.

Read articles offline

With BlinkList, you can save your favorite articles and web pages and get back to them later even while you are offline

Licorize is a minimalistic and fast to-do manager that you can feed with your bookmarks and web updates. Licorize begins as a bookmarking tool, providing a non-intrusive “add bookmark with one click” functionality. It is integrated in browsers, with plugins, extensions and bookmarklets, provides readability features, multi-tagging, site thumbnails and more as evolution of bookmarking.

Transform and curate

Beyond bookmarks, Licorize provides built-in types to classify information, which have specific behavior and are hence more refined than simple tags.

Your web life timeline

Licorize can also be a complete timeline of your web worker lifestream: it synchs with Twitter, Evernote, DropBox, RSS, LinkedIn, Instapaper, ReadItLater, E-mail… And you can access it all from your mobile.

Collaborate and share

Anybody can join your projects – it’s easy. The limits of “just tagging” bookmarks become clear once you want to share work and ideas on the “bookmark” collection: you need to define to-do’s, distribute things to be done, discuss ideas.

Skloog is a tool where you can easily create shortcuts to all of your favorite sites, bookmark pages that you’d like to refer back to at a later time and organize and arrange all of this information so that you can access it instantaneously.

Favilous provides you with two bookmarklets which you add to your browser favourites bar to save webpages or mark them for reading later. You can then navigate to all your favourite web pages through Favilous using a number of different views, like the one on the left. All your bookmarks are in the cloud, backed up and available anywhere. Forget about synchronising across multiple browsers.

13. Springpad

Springpad gives you a place to quickly and easily save anything you want to remember. Take a note, create a task, scan a product barcode and look up the book your friend mentioned. The best part is that no matter where you are, Springpad is there with you to make sure you don’t forget something worth remembering. Just think it and Spring it, and it’ll be there for you when you need it.

Smarter way to save

Not only is everything you save automatically synced across your mobile devices and any browser, but Springpad also automatically uses the power of the internet to add useful information and relevant offers. From reviews and price drops to showtimes and reservations, Springpad keeps on working for you even when you’re not thinking about it. Isn’t that how it should work?

Organize

Springpad automatically categorizes everything you save and gives you powerful organizational features. Tag anything. Create notebooks to separate your home life from your work life or plan trips and special projects. Use the board to visually plan your next steps. It’s as flexible as you’d like it to be.

Place in the cloud

Think of Springpad as your own place in the cloud – a high-powered internet-connected personal database of everything that’s of interest to you, even if you’re not ready to do something about it right away. Everything is automatically synced between your mobile devices and the web for instant and universal access.

Netvibes is a free web site that lets you personalize your web experience. Take everything that matters to you while online — newspapers, blogs, weather, email, search, videos, photos, social networks, podcasts, widgets, games and funny applications — then bring them together in one single page, your personalized Dashboard. Make this Dashboard automatically update every time you open it. That’s what netvibes does. And it does so much more.

With Bundlr you can select the most relevant content about your favorite topics, be it photos, videos, tweets, presentations or articles. Research for a work assignment, pick your favorite music videos, cover real-time breaking news or wrap up an event are just some examples of things you can do.

Visualize your content

Display your bundles in a grid or a timeline. Great for a quick overview of your content and to follow a bundle being updated in real-time.

Collaborate

Clip content together by inviting your friends or colleagues to collaborate with you on a bundle.

Share and embed

Share the things you clipped on social media or embed them on you blog or website. The bundle will always be updated there too.

Now we have good idea about great tools to organize bookmarks. The next step will be to see the must have Firefox Addons.

11 Must Have Firefox Addons to Boost the Productivity of Bloggers

These addons provide a lot of flexibility by reducing the necessity of separate tools for different tasks of blogging. This saves a lot of time required in managing different tools and thus increases the overall productivity of Blogger.

To do Blogging, you need a Blog Editor and ScribeFire in Firefox acts as a nice blogging editor. The user can drag and drop text from web pages, insert images, and post to multiple blogs. Unfortunately, there is a tracking option enabled by default but it can be disabled. This addon can actually make your blog editing platform independent from your operating system.

Obviously, Bloggers need to sort out their future plans to groom quickly. Reminder Fox lets you do it with ease in Mozilla Firefox. You can manage To Do lists, set Reminders with alerts or alarms right in your Firefox browser conveniently.

Bloggers need to remain updated with other blogs and sources of information for which the defacto communication standard is RSS. RSS Ticker is a nice add-on which displays the Live Bookmarks in a scrolling fashion across the user’s screen. It means that the user gets updates while browsing and doesn’t need to log in feed reader specifically for accessing RSS feeds.

This addon increases overall productivity of blogger by providing some commonly used tasks in a refined manner. It tweaks wikipedia by showing related articles, auto loads next pages, shows suggestions by Google for a keyword in address bar, enhances Google’s search results and many more. Its my personal favorite and highly recommended for you.

If you are facing difficulty in finding a related website to the one you are currently visiting, Similar Web can actually provide many alternatives. In this way, the blogger can easily hit upon many similar resources and refine articles comfortably. It helps a lot and boosts my productivity while researching for an article.

You are wondering for addon like “Similar Web” which can find relative content for your blog post then you don’t need to worry, Zemanta is here. It’s a content recommendation engine which helps you in finding and suggesting images, links, articles, and tags correlated to your content from a large number of quality resources like YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr, Amazon, Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, and many more. An awesome addon which you should install right now.

Gmail is currently the mostly used email service in general and this happens to be same in case of bloggers. Also Google provides free email solution in a package named Google Apps for domains. Therefore, an enhanced Gmail notifier is needed and Gmail Manager addon is best for many purposes.

It is another Firefox addon which acts as an alternative for a feed reader. Its features are not less worth than a full feed reader. The feeds are displayed in form of a full web page with a sidebar containing user’s subscriptions. The items can be searched and bookmarked. There is also a notification option which informs whenever there is an update in any feed.

Bloggers need to copy content from different sources and paste it in their article but in most cases the content has its own formatting. You need to remove this formatting and then match it with your content. Instead of doing this, you can copy text from a web page through this extension which removes all formatting and makes it simple text.

Nonnative as well native English speakers need a dictionary for easy look up. For a Blogger, it is even more necessary as it can provide more sophisticated alternatives for a given word which can polish Blogger’s write up.

This Firefox addon lets a blogger organize a library of web pages or full websites. The addon supports filters which can be defined to exclude related links and web pages that are not required.

If you are a Blogger and starts utilizing these addons, you will quickly feel an improvement in quality of your work which is obviously the ultimate goal. There may be an addon missing which is your favorite one, do let us know in comments.

If we have gone trough the Firefox add-ons, we absolutely have to take a look at some awesome Chrome extensions. Right?

18 Helpful Google Chrome Extensions for Bloggers

Competition between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome has been intense since the day Google released their official browser. Chrome is the only browser to hit the market and became so much successful in a short span of time. It has outperformed Apple Safari and Opera in speed and surpassed the extensibility of Firefox. Many Firefox users have been flocking away from Firefox since Chrome launched its Extensions. Many bloggers, including me, have done the same because of the effective and multipurpose extension Chrome is supporting.

Using Zemanta, you can enhance your blogging experience and make it fun. It expands regular blogging dashboard giving you content suggestion about the text you are writing, images, links, articles and tags in a simple interface located in the sidebar. It supports WordPress, Blogger, Typepad and other popular publishing platforms. It has a spam-free database of 10,000 news sources and blogs; it will filter the copyright images before suggesting them to you.

There are lots of people like me who are always afraid to open a shortened link, scared of any virus attack, but we can overcome this problem by using this extension. You just have to enter the shortened link and press the extract button, original link will be displayed.

Signatures in any email are very important for bloggers for contacting with fellow bloggers because it looks professional. This extension allows you to create multiple signatures which can be selected as used in Gmail. It will add IM and Social Profiles like Facebook, Twitter and more below your sign.

Installing this extension is much recommended if you are feed geek. Using this extension you can work with feeds with leisure. It will help you in both reading and subscribing the feeds. When a website has a new feed, the icon of this extension will turn green to orange, click it to open a popup menu to see the list of feeds available on that page then click anyone of them to read it in Google Reader. It can show the number to unread items still in your Google Reader account. You can configure its Icon click, double-click and triple click actions from the option menu.

Well URL shortening has become very famous since last some years and there are many sites providing this service. This Google Chrome extension named “Chrome Chikitizer” dose the same task effectively and directly from your chrome browser.

It is a saying: “Sharing is Caring”. So every blogger should share the useful knowledge he/she has or amazingly informative web pages with his/her colleague and friends. The easy ways to do so is to install this extension. It is the easiest way to share interesting web pages using Facebook, Twitter, Email, Gmail, Bookmarks and many more. You can choose from 100+ supported services which can be configured from option menu.

Most of you people may be familiar with the drop.io service, which assists you to get images, movies or documents from WebPages. This extension uses drop.io and allows you to create drops as well as scrape all media of all kind off of any website and throw it into drop. For example if you are browsing Google Images and you click Drop All Images, this extension will upload all the images to your drop and access then easily in future. You can customize whether the extension always create a new drop or you can set a single default drop for it to be used always.

Tired of using Google Images with a very small preview images? Use “Google Images Large Images” extension to over-come this obstacle while browsing Google Images. It will show the actual image size on mouse over which will help you to determine the original beauty of that specific image.

Although there are many Twitter extensions for Google Chrome but Chromed Bird is the most powerful I have used till now with many features. Using this extension you can use tweet anytime without visiting twitter.com, you can add/remove timeline tabs, create custom search queries that will be updates automatically, preview image links by hovering them. Many more important features are also present in this extension to make your tweeting experience more fast and interactive.

For regular bloggers it is very important to monitor the SEO status of any blog or website of his/her interest. He/she will know the performance and ranking of the websites of his interest in the eyes of Alexa and Google. The SEO status toolbar is a simple, light-weight and very fast facility of checking Google Pagerank and Alexa Rank for any website or its every page. One other advantage of using this toolbar is that, it will increase the Alexa Rank for the sites you visit just like IE toolbar does.

It don’t rely on any third-party website to collect information, it take the data directly from Google and Alexa hence providing accurate and reliable SEO status of any website.

Image cropper extension allows to crop images from any website. It can crop images in img HTML element, CSS background images for any HTML element and images in PNG format. Important point is, you cannot take screenshot of a webpage or crop it according to your desire, it can crop images present on web pages only.

Not everyone can master any language even it is his/her mother language. So there is always a need of a dictionary, and how good that will be if you have a dictionary in the same page which you are reading. Now this is possible if you are using Google Chrome, by installing this extension you can get meaning or definition of any word in a small pop-up bubble just by double clicking it.

This extension also offers a address bar dictionary from which you can view complete definition of any word. It supports many international languages like French, German, Spanish and more. But note that, it is a dictionary not a translator; i.e. if you are trying to find meaning of a Dutch word in English, it wont happen.

Every one hate to miss some important task, I presume so that you. So better set reminders about the tasks and chores to be done in future. This Google Chrome Extension allows you to setup reminder while you are browsing. Remind yourself of online work to be done later or remind yourself of the jobs you need to complete on a specific time. You can also sync the reminders between your different computers using Chrome built-in “Synchronize My Bookmarks” function.

Ibrii is a very amazing tool to snip every type of content like images, videos, text from any website. One big advantage of this service is that, it provide the facility to share distinct and trenchant elements unlike other service by the use of which, you can only share the whole web page on Twitter or Facebook. Users have the facility to create permalinks which can be later used or shared on instant messaging or on other social networking sites.

Coding is a very crucial and significant part of a blogger, people find it difficult to switch between the browser and code editor so this extension is made which allows you to code right within the your browser. I can locally save a code reference for later use on your computer. It has some predefined basic codes like HTML 4 DTD, HTML 5 DTD, CSS and jQuery Functions.

This official Digg extension makes digging easy and fast. You can Digg directly from your browser, it views Digg count for any URL which is displayed in the right of the browser’s address bar. As Digg is one of the largest source to find information of your interest, this extension has a random button that allows you to discover new content from the web.

This extension will check for pending comments on your WordPress blog and displays it as a badge. You can unapproved, Trash, Reply to or mark as spam without opening a new tab. This extension is very handy for bloggers owing more than 1 blog as it can add multiple blogs.

ChromePass is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords which are stored by Google Chrome browser. It will show Origin URL, Action URL, User name and Passwords as well as their fields and the time at which they were created.

Any thing missing or any suggestion? Feel free to inform us about your thoughts in comments :) .

Ahhhh…I was just asking on Facebook about websites for tracking bookmarks – not just images like on Pinterest – and then come across your blog post through a Google Search. What a great amount of info, and a huge selection of websites to check out now (oh, my poor ADHD-addled brain is gonna have a FIELD day with all this! LOL)!!

Try out whishin.com for bookmarking all the things you are thinking of or need to buy. The great thing about it is that you can open it up to friends so you can make communal decisions – eg for choosing a holiday. V cool site!

Great round up, just what the doctor ordered. My wife has been laughing at me the way I bookmark everything I find interesting, this article would surely help me get organized. Thank you, this is brilliant!